Facebook starts early

According to a recent representative survey, a quarter of Hungarian children under the age of 13 are already on Facebook. On the one hand, this is contrary to the rules of the community portal, and on the other hand, it raises significant data protection and educational issues. According to the rules, I wouldn't be able to do it, but many of the Hungarian children under the age of 13 still register on Facebook. In a survey conducted by AG Data, researchers asked thousands of Hungarian Internet users whether a child under the age of 13 living in a household uses the largest social networking site.

The results show that 13% of children under the age of 22 living in households using the Internet have already registered on Facebook, and a further 4% of those living in a household with them do not know if they are members of the community site.
 It is important that parents regulate their child's internet habits in the same way as they regulate other activities and teach them how to use social portals in the same way as they teach them to ride a bike, warns András Petrányi-Széll, Head of Communications at Hungary.

There are several dangers for a child on Facebook. Because you don’t yet know what to click and what not to, you can easily fall into the trap of phishers through scam posts and videos. The most common example of this is the misuse of a celebrity’s name and image. Posts like “I can’t believe Miley Cyrus did this” attract children, but such clicks often end in leaking personal information, infecting the computer.

The next option for criminals is to tap your mobile account or credit card. They program applications that say the future in exchange for a premium SMS message, calculate the probability of a relationship being successful, or provide another similar service.
The third source of danger is adults who want to get to know children, who often register under social names as juveniles. It’s important, therefore, that parents teach their child to only tag them back and only chat on Facebook with those they clearly and personally know. For example, there are dozens of Tamás Fluor on the portal, and each of them has many acquaintances, many of whom are children - András Petrányi-Széll points out.

In addition, the malice of contemporaries must be taken into account. Cyberbullying is the phenomenon in which a peered child or teenager is taunted or threatened by his or her peers via the Internet or mobile phone. The most infamous such case is the story of Megan Meier, which ended in the suicide of a teenage girl. 

Finally, the last source of danger for the child is for themselves, namely by uploading data and photos that they later want to delete from the internet.